1Institute of Forest Ecology and Environmental Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China 2Liaoning Academy of Forestry, Shenyang 110032, PR China 3School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China 4School of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China 5Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Nat...

natural fire inflicting irreparable damage to rangelands and forest areas is cause changes in landscape ecology. the purpose of this research is comparison of artificial neural network (ann) and line regression (lr) models to predict of forest and rangelands fires to this end, the data consist fire burned area and fire were used weather data over a period of 7 years (2006-2012(.the result indic...

Background: What are now increasingly called individual based models (IBMs) have been used in ecology since the 1970s when theoretical ecology began in earnest. The best known examples from that time include the forest computer simulation model (named JABOWA) of Daniel Botkin (Botkin et al 1972) and the computer simulation model of Donald DeAngelis (DeAngelis et al 1991) for a freshwater fish c...

College of Forest Resources, University of Washington, Box 352100, Seattle, WA 98195, United States USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 1992 Folwell Ave., St. Paul, MN 55108, United States c School of Forest Resources, Penn State University, 203 Forest Resources Bldg., University Park, PA 16802, United States Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of ...

Claim of sustainability are virtually impossible to prove but enough is known about tropical forest ecology and silviculture to protect ecosystem functions and maintain biodiversity while still deriving financial profirs from logging . Rapid improvements in long-term forest production will derive from better planning of harvesting operations and stand improvement treatments. Lack of good manage...

The most commonly used approaches to describe distributions of species and biodiversity are known as correlative (syn. phenomenological) species distribution models (Elith & Leathwick, 2009). These methods aim to describe the patterns, not the mechanisms, in the association between species occurrences and environmental data (mainly climatic data). Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research – U...

Nacrtak The forest operations engineering and management community has been facing the problem of improving its scientific visibility, realigning its research efforts to the future challenges, and of strengthening its self-confidence. The paper aims at exploring the paradigms that shaped the development of forest operations as a scientific discipline, sketching a vision how forest operations co...

© The Ecological Society of America www.frontiersinecology.org E of the principal greenhouse gas (GHG), carbon dioxide (CO2), are driven primarily by the burning of fossil fuels, but the Earth’s biosphere also plays a major role in the global carbon (C) budget. Forest biomes are an important component of the global C budget, because of the large quantities stored in live biomass, detritus, and ...